Chris’ Journey
As an imaginative child I didn’t fit well into the normal sporting genres in ’70s 80’s boom mining town in West Australia, Growing up as an Aussie Army kid with a dad in the military and subsequently, the family posted all over the world before returning to settle in the West.  I didn’t find my feet in the traditional team sports on offer. On the soccer field, I’d be too busy trying to walk on my hands or gazing off longingly into the trees, while the rest of the team was chasing the ball.
Eventually, after jumping off too many garden sheds and climbing every tree on the block including my neighbors I discovered a love for gymnastics and acrobatics, competing at Nationals in both sports before my coaches (both highly skilled ex-circus performers) ignited an artistic fire in me.
Master of sports coaches Kasimeire and Irina Jednerog welcomed me into their circus family back in the 80s shortly after immigrating here from a 3rd generation family of performing circus artists in Europe and I soon found myself apprenticed to learning everything I could from them.
Exotic circus acts such as Adagio, Hand to Hand, Banquine, Teeterboard, Perch, and Russian Bar, numbers very seldom seen anywhere in Australia at that time, now became my discipline whilst I slowly developed my fundamentals under the guidance of these very talented and patient coaches. I also found a blossoming early passion for passing on my new knowledge and sharing with others this inspiring creative world.
After school, as an extremely shy young man who couldn’t sing, dance, or act my first career steps were a stint in the Australian Army and then laboring in the gold mines of WA but neither could keep me for long while the glamour of Showbiz beckoned and I had a very unconventional start to a career in performing arts that would eventually take me around the world.
Working with some of Australia’s leading Circus, Dance, Theatre, and Opera companies as an acrobat/performer leads to a role as an acrobat doing lifts with none other than Nicole Kidman in the Feature film “Moulin Rouge” before starting my own specialty circus acts “Duo Arabesque” and “Equillbrio” performing as guest artists in many events and shows here in Australia and overseas for many years.
At that extreme level, physical performance in any discipline or sport can’t be maintained for very long. All shows must draw to a finale and the curtain must close …so too all good things must come to an end. But for myself, the ending of my own performance career was only the beginning of a new chapter.
Retiring from an International performance career and coming home to the West in 2013, I had already been creating and trialing much of the ideas and philosophy behind his teaching